- #1 Core Keeper
97% matchVery Positive93% of 63,205 reviews2024
Dev: PugstormPub: Fireshine Games
Windows · Linux
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.7% ★, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 12.6%, Building 11.3%, Sandbox 11%
Why You'll Like It: This top-down survival game perfectly mirrors the underground mining, crafting, and base-building loop found in AETHUS.
- #2 The Planet Crafter
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 67,314 reviews2024
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 21.1 hrsMean: 37.2 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A space survival open world terraforming crafting game, designed for 1 to 10 players. Alter the ecosystem of an inhospitable planet to render it habitable for humanity. Survive, gather resources, and build your base. Then, generate oxygen, warmth, and pressure to create a brand new biosphere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.5% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Automation 10.1%, Crafting 8.3%, Building 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on terraforming and base-building in a sci-fi setting, rewarding players for exploring and expanding their reach.
- #3 Starbound
96% matchVery Positive90% of 122,901 reviews2016
Dev: Chucklefish
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 17.2 hrsMean: 64.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
You’ve fled your home, only to find yourself lost in space with a damaged ship. Your only option is to beam down to the planet below, repair your ship and set off to explore the universe...
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Sandbox 13.9%, Crafting 10.3%, Space 9.3%, Survival 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi exploration game that features extensive mining, modular base-building, and a narrative-driven progression system.
- #4 ASTRONEER
95% matchVery Positive92% of 136,711 reviews2019
Dev: System Era Softworks
Windows
Median: 11.7 hrsMean: 44.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Interact with strange new worlds in a unique and tactile way, molding the environment itself as if it were clay in your hands. Build your base, master resource management, automate your production lines, and more as you unravel the mysteries of the universe, alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22% ★, Base Building 11%, Space 10.2%, Survival 9.7%, Open World 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: Features modular base-building and resource gathering on alien planets with a strong focus on exploration and sci-fi aesthetics.
- #5 Techtonica
94% matchMixed65% of 3,183 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 23.3%, Base Building 17.6%, Building 13.7%, Crafting 12%, Resource Management 11.9%
Why You'll Like It: A first-person underground factory-building game that captures the same sense of mining and industrial expansion as AETHUS.
- #6 Terraria
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,511,859 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.2 hrsMean: 149.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.2% ★, Sandbox 16.1%, Crafting 12.3%, Survival 12%, Building 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: The quintessential 2D mining and crafting game that offers a massive world to explore and complex boss-driven progression.
- #7 Necesse
92% matchVery Positive93% of 26,780 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.8 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.6% ★, Crafting 10%, Sandbox 9.7%, Automation 9.3%, Base Building 9%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that emphasizes base-building, resource management, and combat in a procedurally generated world.
- #8 Space Trash Scavenger
93% matchVery Positive84% of 514 reviews2024
Dev: SquarePlay GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Grab your jetpack and explore procedural asteroid fields, derelict spaceships and abandoned outposts. Build and automate your Space Rig to process scavenged trash. Craft, trade and fight your way home in this interstellar, open-world survival sandbox.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.5% ★, Automation 14.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Space 8.3%, Base Building 8.2%
Why You'll Like It: Combines sci-fi survival, crafting, and scavenging in a way that feels like a natural extension of the AETHUS gameplay loop.
- #9 Astro Colony
91% matchVery Positive82% of 2,509 reviews2022
Dev: Terad Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Explore endless Universe and create the most efficient constellation of colonies. Build conveyor systems to automate production. Take care of Astronauts and their needs! Establish new colonies as part of intergalactic simulation.
Why similar: Automation 19.2%, Base Building 18.8%, Resource Management 11.8%, Space 11.5%, Building 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A space-themed base-building game that focuses on automation and managing resources across different environments.
- #10 Nova Lands
91% matchVery Positive89% of 3,351 reviews2023
Dev: BEHEMUTTPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Nova Lands is a factory building, exploration, and island management game. Explore, engage in combat, and automate your industry. The planet you’re on is full of mysteries, creatures, people, and things to do. Welcome to your new home amongst the stars!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.4% ★, Automation 16.4%, Base Building 13.1%, Sandbox 9.1%, Crafting 8.8%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down automation and exploration game that features a charming aesthetic and satisfying base-building mechanics.
- #11 Subnautica
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 344,093 reviews2018
Dev: Unknown Worlds Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.4 hrsMean: 40.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Survival 13.6%, Base Building 13.4%, Crafting 11.7%, Open World 11%
Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for narrative-driven sci-fi survival, emphasizing exploration and building a base in a hostile environment.
- #12 Factorio
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 227,071 reviews2020
Dev: Wube Software LTD.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 44.8 hrsMean: 188.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.
Why similar: Automation 26.2%, Base Building 20.3%, Resource Management 13.5%, Crafting 10.9%, Sandbox 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Offers deep mining and automation mechanics that satisfy the desire for complex resource management and base expansion.
- #13 Eden Crafters
89% matchVery Positive86% of 2,214 reviews2024
Dev: Osaris Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 13.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Embark on a journey of survival, crafting, and automation in Eden Crafters, a solo and co-op open-world game that challenges you to turn a hostile planet into a habitable haven for humanity. Temper the climate, create a breathable atmosphere, and turn toxic lakes into water: shape a new world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17.8% ★, Automation 13.8%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 9.2%, Sandbox 7.3%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that emphasizes base-building and resource management through automation and exploration.
- #14 Keplerth
88% matchVery Positive85% of 4,121 reviews2022
Dev: TAROPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 16.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Welcome to Keplerth! Try to survive on a hostile alien planet in this 2D sandbox RPG, where you can choose to live alone or fight side by side with your friends in the online multiplayer mode. Survive, build, farm, fight, and explore your way to victory in this open-world adventure!
Why similar: Sandbox 16.1%, Building 15%, Survival 14.2%, Open World 13.5%, Sci-fi 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down sandbox survival game that emphasizes exploration, crafting, and base-building in a dangerous sci-fi world.
- #15 The Crust
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Automation 19.6%, Base Building 17.4%, Resource Management 12.3%, Space 12%, Sandbox 10.5%
Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim focused on mining and base-building on the moon, perfect for fans of sci-fi resource management.
- #16 Don't Starve
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 112,271 reviews2013
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 28.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.2% ★, Survival 24.3%, Crafting 15.6%, Sandbox 11.7%, Open World 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game with a unique atmosphere that challenges players to manage resources and build a base to survive.
- #17 Aground
86% matchVery Positive94% of 1,965 reviews2020
Dev: Fancy Fish Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
As one of the last human survivors, you find yourself stranded on an uninhabited island. With a few other victims of the crash, can you craft, mine, and build your way to survival?
Why similar: Mining 23% ★, Open World Survival Craft 18.2% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Building 9.9%, Survival 9%
Why You'll Like It: A progression-focused mining and crafting game that starts simple and expands into a complex sci-fi adventure.
- #18 FOUNDRY
84% matchVery Positive81% of 3,508 reviews2024
Dev: Channel 3 EntertainmentPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 7.2 hrsMean: 45.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Build a sophisticated robot factory optimized to perfection in an infinite voxel world. Mine and harvest resources, automate your production lines and manage complex systems while researching your way to become the galaxy’s leading robotics megacorp.
Why similar: Automation 17%, Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 12%, Resource Management 10.8%, Building 10.8%
Why You'll Like It: A voxel-based automation and base-building game that provides a deep sense of scale and industrial progression.
- #19 Scrapnaut
85% matchMostly Positive70% of 824 reviews2021
Dev: SpiffyBitPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Scrapnaut is a co-op & singleplayer top-down, base building survival game with steampunk elements. Explore an open world with different biomes, take care of oxygen, manage your farms, generate electricity, build your home and much more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.7% ★, Building 14%, Survival 12%, Base Building 11%, Crafting 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game with a focus on building, farming, and managing resources in a hostile environment.
- #20 MewnBase
83% matchVery Positive93% of 1,428 reviews2023
Dev: Cairn4
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
MewnBase is a space-cat survival and base-building game. Scavenge around a barren planet for items to keep you fed. Explore and collect resources. Craft items and grow your base to help you survive.
Why similar: Base Building 16.7%, Crafting 13.2%, Sandbox 10.7%, Building 10%, Space 10%
Why You'll Like It: A charming sci-fi base-building game that focuses on survival and resource management on a desolate planet.
- #21 Occupy Mars: The Game
82% matchMostly Positive70% of 3,012 reviews2026
Dev: ▲ Pyramid Games
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 31.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Survive and colonize Mars in a highly technical, open-world sandbox game. Build and upgrade your base, discover new regions, conduct mining operations, retrieve water, generate oxygen, grow crops, and fix broken parts.
Why similar: Base Building 14.4%, Crafting 12.4%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 10.8%, Building 10.3%
Why You'll Like It: A hardcore sci-fi survival game that requires meticulous base-building and resource management to survive on Mars.
- #22 Atrio: The Dark Wild
84% matchVery Positive80% of 592 reviews2023
Dev: Isto Inc.
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Keep your disposable android-body alive by automating everything. Automate farming, foraging, crafting and capturing - and even assimilate creatures into your production lines during your impossible mission to relight the world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21% ★, Automation 16.4%, Base Building 12.2%, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival game that blends automation and base-building with a dark, atmospheric sci-fi aesthetic.
- #23 Outpath
82% matchVery Positive94% of 2,905 reviews2023
Dev: David Moralejo SánchezPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.1% ★, Base Building 14.7%, Automation 14.5%, Crafting 12.4%, Sandbox 9.8%
Why You'll Like It: A simplified, satisfying crafting and base-building game that focuses on the core loop of gathering and expanding.
- #24 Forever Skies
81% matchMostly Positive79% of 8,284 reviews2025
Dev: Far From Home
Windows
Median: 7.4 hrsMean: 32.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A first-person survival game set on a post-apocalyptic, ecologically ruined Earth. Play solo or with up to 3 friends as you build, upgrade, and fly a high-tech airship. Scavenge resources, craft tools, and face dangers on the surface as you hunt for a cure to save humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Crafting 12%, Survival 10%, Open World 9.5%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi survival game that features a unique mobile base-building mechanic and deep exploration of a ruined world.
- #25 Prospector
80% matchMostly Positive72% of 149 reviews2025
Dev: Loonworks Games
Windows
Land on a distant planet in this chill resource management game. Harvest alien resources, build and automate machinery, uncover secrets across the stars and strike shipping deals with distant colonies for exclusive rewards!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 12.6% ★, Automation 12.1%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 8.7%, Crafting 8.6%
Why You'll Like It: A resource-management and base-building game that captures the essence of mining and survival in a sandbox environment.
- #26 StarRupture
78% matchVery Positive81% of 10,861 reviews2026
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
StarRupture is a first-person open world base-building game with advanced combat and tons of exploration. Play alone or in a group on this sublime and ever-changing planet, extract and manage resources, create your complex industrial system and fight off hordes of alien monsters.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.5% ★, Automation 15.5%, Base Building 13.6%, Crafting 10.4%, Survival 9.2%
Why You'll Like It: An open-world survival game that features base-building and automation in a visually striking sci-fi environment.
- #27 Volcanoids
81% matchVery Positive83% of 9,214 reviews2019
Dev: Volcanoid
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 15.9 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.6% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Crafting 13%, Survival 10.8%, Open World 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: Features unique modular base-building on a mobile drill ship, emphasizing mining and survival in a steampunk sci-fi world.
- #28 TerraTech Worlds
79% matchMixed63% of 2,175 reviews2024
Dev: Payload StudiosPub: Mythwright
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
TerraTech Worlds is an open world, build-craft adventure game, set on an uncharted alien world. Play solo or with friends, explore your surroundings, craft unique vehicles, construct automated bases, and battle your way through hazards and enemies to harness the power of your environment
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 16.1% ★, Mining 15% ★, Base Building 10.9%, Crafting 8.5%, Automation 8%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox exploration and building game that allows for creative modular construction in a sci-fi setting.
- #29 XenoHaven
78% matchVery Positive86% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 17% ★, Base Building 12.5%, Sandbox 9.8%, Open World 9.4%, Crafting 9.1%
Why You'll Like It: A sandbox survival game that focuses on building a base and exploring a dangerous, alien world.
- #30 Final Factory
79% matchMostly Positive79% of 300 reviews2024
Dev: Never Games Limited
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Final Factory blends factory building, spaceship design, and a rich universe to explore. Build a mega factory and command a massive fleet against the hostile local aliens. Discover new technologies and unlock the secrets of an ancient civilization as you explore an infinite cosmos.
Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Base Building 15%, Crafting 12%, Resource Management 11.1%, Sandbox 9.6%
Why You'll Like It: A large-scale automation and base-building game that emphasizes logistics and resource management in space.
- #31 Astrometica
77% matchVery Positive83% of 2,970 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Astrometica is a space exploration and base-building survival game. After a catastrophic event, explore vast space, gather resources, build bases, and uncover cosmic mysteries. Use advanced technology, craft tools, and discover new blueprints to survive and thrive in the unknown.
Why similar: Automation 14.4%, Open World Survival Craft 12.3% ★, Base Building 12%, Crafting 11.9%, Survival 10.8%
- #32 Blossom: The Seed of Life
75% matchVery Positive90% of 654 reviews2026
Dev: Pebbledust GamesPub: Pretty Soon
Windows
Terraform a dead planet back to life in this open world survival crafting game. Explore ruins, gather resources, print machines, drive modular vehicles, grow forests, biomes, and ecosystems. Create life and make it thrive with your own hands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 19.3% ★, Base Building 12.1%, Automation 10.8%, Crafting 9%, Building 8.2%
- #33 GeoDepths
77% matchVery Positive87% of 298 reviews2023
Dev: A Little More Games
Windows
Pilot your drill deep below the surface of a remote planet, to mine ore to refine into resources, which will be used in drill upgrades and construction of your homebase. Upgrades will allow you to drill deeper to find more types of ores. Explore caves to uncover mysteries and secrets.
Why similar: Mining 27.2% ★, Base Building 14.6%, Automation 14.4%, Resource Management 12.4%, Crafting 10.2%
- #34 Star Crafter
76% matchMixed69% of 104 reviews2025
Dev: Tbjbu2
Windows
A space survival crafting mining base building and star system building game. Craft rockets to create planets and Dyson Rings, mine and craft advanced materials, terraform the terrain, manage electricity, farm food, and more as you watch the star system evolve into stunning, ever-changing views.
Why similar: Mining 17% ★, Open World Survival Craft 15.2% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Automation 9.5%, Crafting 8.3%
- #35 MineMogul
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 3,443 reviews2025
Dev: NoodleForge (Gvarados & Diomonder)Pub: NoodleForge
Windows
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Design and build a factory deep underground in this physics-based automation sandbox. Mine resources, buy machines and master the chaos as you become the ultimate Mine Mogul!
Why similar: Mining 24.2% ★, Automation 18.8%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.5%
- #36 Orebound
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 849 reviews2024
Dev: Emberforge
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Orebound is a voxel, factory, automation game set in a first person open-world. The King has tasked you to locate the elusive Emberstone. Go forth and use your Dwarven prowess and knowledge to mine, craft and automate through anything standing in your way - Build up or dig down! How far will you go?
Why similar: Mining 19.9% ★, Automation 14.6%, Base Building 11.1%, Crafting 10.3%, Resource Management 9.3%
- #37 Star Ores Inc.
74% matchVery Positive83% of 293 reviews2025
Dev: BlackBeak GamesPub: Three River Games (3RG)
Windows
Take over an abandoned space station and manage your own ore mine. Cut through the asteroid with your laser, sell ore, and create an automated network of robot helpers to maximize your profit.
Why similar: Mining 24.4% ★, Crafting 12.9%, Sandbox 11.5%, Space 10.1%, Resource Management 9.9%
- #38 Above Snakes
76% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,929 reviews2023
Dev: Square Glade GamesPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Piece by piece, create your own world in this relaxing Wild West-inspired worldbuilder. Craft, farm, hunt, build your base, and explore.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 21.4% ★, Base Building 12.3%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 10.8%, Building 10.4%
- #39 The Last Starship
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 1,419 reviews2026
Dev: Introversion Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 81%
The Last Starship is a 2D space construction game where you design and upgrade your starship. Choose your path: pirate hunter, miner, engineer, spacebus driver, and more, whilst exploring vibrant star systems. Enjoy a growing sandbox world, with regular free updates. Your cosmic adventure awaits!
Why similar: Mining 24.4% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Automation 11.7%, Sandbox 10.4%, Building 10.4%
- #40 The Last Caretaker
72% matchVery Positive85% of 9,793 reviews2025
Dev: Channel37 Ltd
Windows
Median: 18.8 hrsMean: 30.9 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.
Why similar: Automation 18.3%, Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 13.8%, Sandbox 11.6%, Survival 11.4%
- #41 The Alters
71% matchVery Positive90% of 16,976 reviews2025
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows
Median: 10.7 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Explore an emotional sci-fi game with a unique blend of survival, adventure, and base-building elements. Help Jan Dolski, the sole survivor of an ill-fated space expedition, create alternative versions of himself to escape a hostile planet and tackle personal turmoils with this unconventional crew.
Why similar: Base Building 21.7%, Survival 15.8%, Crafting 11.6%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sci-fi 9.8%
- #42 Breathedge
73% matchVery Positive82% of 16,026 reviews2021
Dev: RedRuins SoftworksPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Survive in outer space! Together with your immortal chicken, discover the truth behind your sudden spaceship crash. Craft tools, pilot vehicles, and even control space stations to survive and explore the wreckage.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.4% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Space 11.8%, Sandbox 10.1%, Survival 10.1%
- #43 Skyformer
71% matchVery Positive90% of 59 reviews2025
Dev: Weatherfused
Windows
Create an automated system that terraforms a planet with an army of drones. Craft and build bases, set up a weather monitoring system, prepare to survive different types of storms, and take control of the climate and biomes!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 18.1% ★, Automation 14.4%, Base Building 11.6%, Crafting 9.4%, Building 8.2%
- #44 Astrometica: Prologue
71% matchVery Positive90% of 1,281 reviews2024
Dev: BeryMeryPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Astrometica: Prologue is the free game about surviving in space. You need to use your skills and tools to stay alive. There are many challenges to face, and you need to fight to survive. You also need to build a new base in space.
Why similar: Base Building 15%, Automation 13.5%, Building 11.1%, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 9.9%
- #45 Crashlands
73% matchVery Positive90% of 6,633 reviews2016
Dev: Butterscotch Shenanigans
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 13.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Fight and tame alien beasts, craft resources into menacing weaponry, befriend the outlandish locals, and go toe-to-chin with a world-domineering maniac.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.5% ★, Base Building 10.8%, Crafting 10.1%, Survival 8.6%, Open World 8.4%
- #46 Return from Core
70% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,761 reviews2025
Dev: 顽核社 Funcore ClubPub: 2P Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Mine, build, and explore with Monster Girl companions in this underground sandbox adventure. Uncover lost tech, automate production, and forge bonds with allies as you fight to survive and journey back to the surface.
Why similar: Automation 19%, Mining 16.5% ★, Base Building 15.7%, Crafting 11.3%, Survival 10.9%
- #47 Satisfactory
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 265,414 reviews2024
Dev: Coffee Stain StudiosPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows
Median: 31.8 hrsMean: 108.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Satisfactory is a first-person open-world factory building game with a dash of exploration and combat. Play alone or with friends, explore an alien planet, create multi-story factories, and enter conveyor belt heaven!
Why similar: Automation 18.3%, Base Building 17%, Crafting 10.8%, Open World Survival Craft 9.4% ★, Open World 8.9%
- #48 The Planet Crafter: Prologue
69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 10,643 reviews2021
Dev: Miju Games
Windows
Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Experience the first stages of terraforming an entire planet in this space survival open world terraforming crafting game prologue. Explore, survive, collect, build your base then create oxygen, heat and pressure to make an hostile planet livable for humanity.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 20.5% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Survival 10%, Crafting 9.8%, Open World 8.2%
- #49 Hydroneer
70% matchVery Positive86% of 27,097 reviews2020
Dev: Foulball Hangover
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Hydroneer is a mining and base building sandbox. Dig for gold and other resources to turn a profit and enhance your mining operation. Build a base of operations, forge weapons, go fishing, and dig deep!
Why similar: Mining 25.2% ★, Automation 16.3%, Base Building 14.7%, Sandbox 9.9%, Building 9.2%
- #50 Stardeus
69% matchVery Positive87% of 1,529 reviews2022
Dev: Kodo LinijaPub: Paradox Arc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
Why similar: Base Building 16.3%, Crafting 12.7%, Resource Management 11.8%, Space 11.5%, Survival 11%
- #51 Heat Death: Survival Train
68% matchMostly Positive79% of 660 reviews2024
Dev: Mass Game DevsPub: LightOnDevs
Windows
Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 25.5% ★, Base Building 14.8%, Crafting 13.7%, Building 11.5%, Survival 10.7%
- #52 Elsewhere
67% matchVery Positive95% of 64 reviews2025
Dev: Four White Cats
Windows
Explore, dig for resources, and build factories in a vibrant open world with quests for both technological and magical progression. Inspired by classic old-school Minecraft modpacks and featuring many new and unique features.
Why similar: Mining 21.6% ★, Automation 13.7%, Crafting 12%, Sandbox 11.9%, Open World 10.2%
- #53 Forager
68% matchVery Positive90% of 43,003 reviews2019
Dev: HopFrogPub: Balor Games
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 22.3 hrs≥1hr: 92%
The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.5% ★, Crafting 14.8%, Survival 12.7%, Base Building 9.6%, Sandbox 8.2%
- #54 ICARUS
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 62,078 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.0 hrsMean: 44.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.6% ★, Base Building 13.1%, Mining 12.5% ★, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 10%
- #55 Gaia
70% matchMixed59% of 93 reviews2020
Dev: Eternal Stardust Studios
Windows
A sci-fi base building survival game, featuring raids, agriculture, intelligent AI, natural disasters and more.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24% ★, Base Building 15.9%, Building 10.5%, Survival 9.8%, Sandbox 9.5%
- #56 BLASTRONAUT
67% matchMostly Positive75% of 174 reviews2022
Dev: Perfoon
Windows · Mac · Linux
BLASTRONAUT is a mining game in a procedural alien world. Explore, extract and profit.
Why similar: Mining 24.6% ★, Open World Survival Craft 17.5% ★, Sandbox 10.3%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 8.4%
- #57 Final Upgrade
67% matchMostly Positive77% of 451 reviews2022
Dev: TaosX
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%
Help humanity to spread throughout the cosmos by exploring new worlds, building space factories and setting up trade routes. Research advanced technologies to increase efficiency and unlock new paths of development. Fight off other artificial intelligences in your goal to reach the Final Upgrade!
Why similar: Automation 20.2%, Base Building 16%, Building 12.2%, Space 11.9%, Resource Management 11.2%
- #58 Lightyear Frontier
64% matchVery Positive84% of 4,206 reviews2024
Dev: FRAME BREAK
Windows
Median: 5.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 87%
In Lightyear Frontier you use your powerful trusty mech to farm on a large beautiful alien planet. Settle your homestead, farm and deliver produce to remote colonies, gather and manage resources, build, craft, explore, expand, improve your mech, meet neighbors, and make a place to call your own.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 22.8% ★, Base Building 14.9%, Crafting 12.7%, Resource Management 11.2%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #59 Space Architect
65% matchMostly Positive76% of 283 reviews2024
Dev: Albert WiatrPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
Design your dream space station in Space Architect! Master the power of automation or 'hire' an army of crewmates to handle your ever-growing production. Mine asteroids, fabricate goods, and engage in interstellar trade to pay off the menacing Big Evil Corp. Will you thrive in the vastness of space?
Why similar: Automation 15.1%, Mining 15.1% ★, Base Building 13.9%, Building 9.3%, Survival 8.9%
